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Charles Darwin to Emma Wedgwood. SHREWSBURY, Wednesday Morning [14 Nov. 1838]. My dear Emma, Marianne and Susan will have told you what joy and happiness the news gave all here. We have had innumerable cogitations; and the one conclusion I exult in is that there was never anyone so lucky as I have been, or so good as you. Indeed I can assure you, many times since leaving Maer, I have thought how little I expressed how much I owe to you; and as often as I think this, I vow to try to make myself
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; pleasure at her husband's election, i. 353; accident to, i. 353; the failure of her health, i. 359, 361; her sad state of health, ii. 58; her death, ii. 89; her character, ii. 90, 91 letters to Emma Allen, i. 13, 57, 76, 89, 116, 121, 142, 254, 286, 300, 305, 323 ; letters to Fanny Allen, i. 16, 30, 105, 109, 117, 152, 184, 211, 213, 220; letters to her daughter Elizabeth, i. 88, 99, 202, 204; letter to her daughter Emma, i. 445; letter to her daughters Fanny and Emma, i. 324; letters to her
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his face when he said on occasion of our admiring the beauty of Emma Pictet that he would not give one of his own little Emma Wedgwoods for ten Emma Pictets. He admires Fanny very much, and as he never hides anything he feels, he tells her he thinks her very pretty will this do her any harm, think you? None at all I believe, for they will not believe themselves a bit more good-looking because he calls them jolie. I suppose the girls have told you all the gossip of the place up to a few days since
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Rome, 29 Nov. 18271. The company of Mr Allen is a real pleasure to me. I am more than ever aware of all that is good and excellent and respectable about him, but is foibles have grown old with him as well as his good qualities, and he is as fond as ever of repeating anecdotes of Brooks's: he has however changed the chit-chat of Holland House for that of Woburn, and the names of Scarlett, Brougham, etc. for those of the Russells and the Seymours. Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her sister Emma Allen at
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all our pleasures. My dearest aunt Jessie I hope you know how tenderly I love you, but it is no use telling it to you for you will believe it without. Your affectionate, EMMA W. Madame Sismondi to her niece Emma Wedgwood. CH NE, May 21st [1828]. I have received by Edward your pretty stool, my dear little Emma. You cannot imagine the pleasure it gives me, since I have done nothing but lament my folly in having given away the other to a person who cares nothing about me. I confess this you have
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; you are surrounded by books that all look most tempting to read ; you will always find some pleasant topic of conversation, or may start one, as all things are talked of in the general family. All this sounds and is delightful. Mrs Charles Darwin to her niece Julia Wedgwood. Autumn, 1891. My dear Snow, I cannot tell you what vivid pleasure this [journal] has given me, if only in putting me in mind of that ride; which was a great honour to a little girl, of course. I remember my wonder at Emma
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he made up his mind to give up all his natural taste for tidiness, and that he would not allow himself to feel annoyed by her calm disregard for such details. He would say, laughing, the only sure place to find a pin or a pair of scissors was his study. I remember one little anecdote told me by my mother about her sister Fanny. When their cousin, Mrs Swinton Holland, gave three little brooches to Fanny, herself, and their cousin Jessie Wedgwood, Fanny had first choice, and Emma saw distinctly
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Surtees, a long cross-country journey Geneva society Visitors at Etruria, Kitty Mackintosh and her daughters, the Sydney Smiths The Allen sisters' journey to Florence. IN the autumn of 1815 the three sisters Jessie, Emma, and Fanny Allen went abroad for three years. Jessie was 38, Emma 35, and Fanny 34 years old. The Continent was only just opened to English travellers after the Peace. They were in Paris when the Louvre was being dismantled of the stolen treasures. Emma Allen to her niece Elizabeth
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. W. CHAPTER IX. 1818. The Josiah Wedgwoods stay six months in Paris with their four girls The Collos Cousins William Clifford French life Letters to brothers at home Dancing lessons, society, and housekeeping Emma's earliest extant letter. IN 1818 Josiah Wedgwood, his wife, and his four daughters journeyed to Paris and stayed there some months. Elizabeth was 24, Charlotte 21, Fanny nearly 12, and Emma nearly 10 years old. Young as she was, Emma vividly remembered all through her long life the
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Borealis is never seen. They talked a great deal about our old friends in the South Sea Islands, and said that all Tameamehah's fleet is built of drift-wood from the coast of America. He mentioned a snow-mine in India where the snow has been covered with lava, and they dig it out like a mine; Emma begs me to lend her the remainder, so good-bye my dear Frank. 1 Alexander von Humboldt (1769 1856), the great naturalist whose travels in S. America had made him famous. Those travels with all the wonders of
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for Sis. Mutton and Mole [ponies] wait to take me and my letter to the post. The party got back to Maer about the 1st October after a nine months' absence. Emma Wedgwood to her aunt Madame Sismondi. MAER, Oct. 7, 1825. My dearest Aunt Jessie, I am very glad to have this little bit to tell you what longings I have to see you again since we parted. I am very sorry you happened to sec that horrid letter of Jos's. We meant to have kept it a profound secret from you, the Canal meeting being put off
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misgives me that he knows nothing of German, which I neglected to mention to you as a necessary requisite, N'importe his great qualities will make up for the trifling circumstance of not one of the party speaking the language of the country. Tell my dear Jessie that her addition to your former letter to your mother was not thrown away upon me. Nobody can do kind things with so much grace as she does. Caroline Darwin to Fanny and Emma Wedgwood. 26 May, 1827. My dear Fanny and Emma, (I know you like
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gives us a few wrinkles that look very like frowns; her brow is still smooth and polished as at 20. Here is the summing up of all our history. Give my love to your father and to Emma very tenderly, and to you, my dear Caroline [Darwin], I give it myself, thanking you most warmly for the few affectionate lines that closed Fanny's letter. I wish I could think myself at all worthy of the desire yon had so long felt of seeing me again. By the pleasure you gave me, I was alone worthy of it I love you
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see Jessie [Sismondi] and my castle is to meet her at Paris, or to return with her if she comes to England which I hope she will do. I feel a little flat this week after the excitement of the last, but a ira. Farewell my dear Emma, with warmest love to you all. Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her daughters Fanny and Emma. MAER, May 20th, 1831. My dear girls, I feel very grateful to Mrs Holland for the pleasant visit you have had with her, and to her good-natured daughters for promoting your pleasure so
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allow he has gained happiness and interest for the rest of his life. Good-bye dear Eliz. It is pleasant to write to those who sympathise so entirely with us. Emma Wedgwood to her sister-in-law Fanny Hensleigh Wedgwood. MAER, Monday [21 oct. 1836). We are getting impatient for Charles [Darwin]'s arrival. The Langtons must go on Monday any how, so I hope he will come soon. We all ought to get up a little knowledge for him. I have taken to no deeper study than Capt. Head's gallop1 which I have
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His only bon mot was enquiring what papa's overalls were and saying. Are they to prevent his hurting his knees when he tumbles down? I began teaching him to read, which he did not much like but never rebelled. Emma, accompanied by her brother Jos, went to Edinburgh this winter to pay a visit of about two months to her cousin Lady Gifford, who was then living there. Emma Wedgwood to her sister-in-law Fanny Hensleigh Wedgwood. 1, ATHOLL CRESCENT, EDINBURGH, Tuesday [Jan. 24. 1837]. We found
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deal to my own unguided fancy. In the following letter Emma alludes to a rumour of Charles Darwin becoming engaged to a Miss . There used to be also jokes about Erasmus and Miss Martineau, of whom his father, the Doctor, apparently had a holy horror. Emma Wedgwood to her sister-in-law Fanny Hensleigh Wedgwood. MAER [May 23, 1837]. Disputes run very high here upon the subject of Violet1. Some of the party are quite convinced it is written by a woman and have some suspicions it is Mrs Marsh. She
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Emma Wedgwood. SHREWSBURY, Wednesday [21 June, 1837]. Dear Emma, Jos arrived after us here about a quarter-of-an-hour. Both Fanny [Allen] and I were afraid to look at either of them, as they were both very shy. Indeed you must take everything we say with the tail to it of as far as we can judge without seeing either of them. I proposed to go out into the garden before dinner, which we did, and Jos staid in with the Dr. I thought Caroline looked very pale, and she has been nervous all the evening
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well for you. [Addition by Fanny Allen.] Dear Emma, I think matters are going on just as you would wish. Shyness, constraining complacency on Caroline's part, pleased exertion, and a melting sweetness on Jos's. I hope Elizabeth told you of his openness at Hodnet I think him the most unreserved person I know. Yours ever, F. A. Fanny Allen to her sister Mrs Josiah Wedgwood. SHREWSBURY, Wednesday Night, 21 June, 1837. My dear Bessy, I feel inclined to fulfil your request of hearing from us from hence
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will all have a delightful winter together. At the end of the Sismondis' long stay in Italy, before settling again at Ch ne they went to Paris, where was a great family gathering. John Allen of Cresselly and his daughter Isabella, Harry and Jessie Wedgwood, Emma Wedgwood and Catherine Darwin all made a trip to Paris to meet them and there spent about three weeks. Emma Wedgwood to her mother. BOULOGNE, May 15, 1838, Sunday. My dear Mamma, Here we are safe and sound after a most excellent passage
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School after the important interview, but found I was turning into an idiot and so came away. Monsieur Sismondi to Emma Wedgwood. CH NE, 23 Novembre, 1838. Ch re Emma, C'est moi qui prens la plume avant ma femme, parceque je veux tre le premier embrasser, au moins, en id e, ma jolie ni ce, la f liciter du bonheur que je vois commencer pour elle, ou si elle est trop fi re pour le permettre, me f liciter du moins moi-m me de ce que cette charmante personne, si faite pour le mariage, si faite pour r
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them, and you all indeed, and give you, my dearest Emma, all the happiness you anticipate and I fervently wish you. J. S. Her two earliest friends Georgina and Ellen Tollet wrote as follows. Their friendship in after life included my father, and was only ended by death. I inherited my share and have the happiest memories of these two able and delightful women. Georgina Tollet to Emma Wedgwood. [13 or 14 Nov. 1838.] My dear, dear Emma, I hope I am as glad as I ought to be at the thing happening
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Ellen Tollet to Emma Wedgwood. Dear Old Soul. I think it quite unfeeling that Elizabeth was not mentioned by Georgy and Carry till just the last, so I shall begin with pitying her. I really was not much surprised, I had thought it so very likely almost sure to be! but not so soon. You two will be quite too happy together, and I hope you will have a chimney that smokes, or something of that sort to prevent your being quite intoxicated. It will be quite enchanting to come and see you, but you
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almost the last. The handwriting shows the effort it cost her. Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her daughter Emma Darwin. MAER, February 4 [1839] A thousand thanks to you, dearest Emma, for your delightful letter which from the cheerful happy tone of it drew tears of pleasure from my old eyes. I am truly thankful to find you so happy, and still more so that you [pages] 446 - 44
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love to Elizabeth and to Uncle Jos and Aunt Bessy. Goodbye my dear. Right glad I shall be to see you on Tuesday. Your affectionate, C. D. All through my father's middle age, his large frame, bright clear eyes, and brown out-of-door looking complexion, so deceived many of his friends that they were apt to believe his ill-health to be more imaginary than real. The following letter proves that even a keen doctor's eye might have been at fault. Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin, at Maer Hall
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think a good thing my inclination for the country does not diminish though. Charles is out to-day. He is very busy finishing his book on Coral islands, which he says no human being will ever read, but there is such a rage for geology that I hope better things. Will you give my kindest love to my Uncle Sis? God bless you my dearest Aunt J. Elizabeth Wedgwood to her aunt Madame Sismondi. MAER, May 3rd, 1842. We have got Emma and her children here to-day. She has been so poorly, poor thing, and
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Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin at Gower Street. Wednesday [SHREWSBURY, probably Oct. 1843]. .Why did you not tell me how your old self was? be sure and tell me exactly next letter. As for myself I am very brisk and have just been paying a call upon Nancy, and have been admiring her chateau, which really is very nice. She showed me a letter from Aunt Bessy which came with crockery, and Mme de S vign could not, I should think, have written more prettily on such an occasion. I got into a transport
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glad to see them again. I always fancy I see Budgy putting her tongue out and looking up to me. Good-bye my dears. C. DARWIN. I was Budgy, then 13 months old. I remember his once saying to me, recalling baby days, Ah! you were a prime favourite. Emma paid a visit to Maer in February, 1845. Her life was at this time almost entirely filled by the cares of husband and children, and I think no reason less strong than seeing her mother would have taken her from her home life. Charles Darwin to Emma
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CHAPTER VI. 1846. Bessy's death on March 31st, 1846 Elizabeth leaves Maer A meeting at Tenby of Emma Darwin and two of her children, the Langtons, and Elizabeth Wedgwood with their aunts. Emma went for a few days alone to Maer in January 1846 on account of her mother's state, who was now evidently failing. Emma Darwin to her aunt Madame Sismondi. MAER, Thursday [Jan. 1846]. Elizabeth is looking well and in good spirits. She is buoyed up by instinctive hopefulness, though if you were to ask her
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might have thought that signing one's name to one's letters was an open point, but it seems it is all settled for us. For S. will not sign or make any common ending any more than Jos or Uncle Tom. I daresay that not a word of this note is really mine; it is all hereditary, except my love for you, which I should think could not be so, but who knows? Yours, C. D. Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin. Monday [SHREWSBURY, 22nd May, 1848]. .I was speculating yesterday how fortunate it was I had plenty of
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CHAPTER VIII. 1849 1851. Life at Down Malvern water-cure The Allen sisters all go touring Jessie Sismondi on F. W. Newman She and her sisters move to Heywood Lane Their youthy age Miss Martineau and Mr Atkinson A party at the Bunsens An impromptu dinner at the Hensleigh Wedgwoods'. Fanny Allen to her niece Emma Darwin. 3 Feb. [1849], HEYWOOD LODGE. My dear Emma, I should be grateful for anything that brought me one of your sweet letters, and I most gratefully thank you for your affection which
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have the particulars of these two letters from Fanny Hensleigh, who is to forward them to you. I write to-day by Emma's wish to ask you to come to her by the first good steamer. As I am here she is in no excessive hurry. Charles is gone to Malvern, and Dr Gully's opinion last night was that in some respects Annie was better and in some worse, but there is yet a chance. Poor Emma is very low, but her health is not injured. She is so afraid that this anxiety may injure Charles's health, which is
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or two. When he was tolerable I could now be left in charge for a day or two. She wrote to Fanny Allen (Nov. 22, 1864): I suppose you have heard of Ch. getting the Copley medal from the Royal Soc. He has been much pleased, but I think the pleasantest part was the cordial feeling of his friends on the occasion. Of family events a death occurred which touched her closely. Her aunt, Emma Allen, died on June 4th, 1864, leaving Fanny alone, the last survivor of her generation. On Nov. 14th there is
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Marianne she adopted the Parkers, and they became almost like her children, living with her at The Mount. She had a charming sweet presence, tall, graceful, dignified, and still beautiful. My father's health was somewhat better in 1866, and they paid more than one visit to London. Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. QUEEN ANNE STREET, Sunday [28 April, 1866]. My dearest aunt Fanny, Our last days here have been so pleasant and successful that I must write you a scrap. The greatest event was
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Directly after their return home from these visits my father became very ill, and Dr Andrew Clark was sent for from London. Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. DOWN, Friday [1873]. Charles has recovered wonderfully from his distressing attack of last week and is moderately at work. I think with invalids, unusual health goes before a fall. I hardly ever saw him so well as the Sunday and Monday before his attack. I am glad we have made a connection with a Dr, by having Dr A. Clark; and his
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time with F., so it was a convenient time for me to sit. Both portraits are unutterable as yet; but he puts in the youth and beauty at the very last. Fanny Allen to her niece Emma Darwin. April 27th [1875]. My dear Emma, I have been thinking of trying my hand in writing with a lithographic pencil, but as Mason expects these pencils in a few days I have not patience to wait, as your pretious letter with its grateful remembrance of the sad April days of 511 makes my heart beat with gratitude to you
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also told me that she felt his love had grown tenderer in the last year. The only regret I ever heard her express was that she had not told him how much pleased she was at his putting up her photograph by the side of his big chair in the study, so that he saw it as he looked up from his work. Her greater leisure was a gain to me. She wrote to me even more constantly and more fully, and let me feel and know that I was a comfort and help to her. Emma Darwin to her son William. DOWN, May 10, 1882
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Emma Darwin to her daughter-in-law Ida. THE GROVE, Tuesday, April 15th [1884]. Maud had to put on her wedding-dress in order to say at the Custom-house in America that she had worn it, so we asked her to come down and show it to us. She came down with great simplicity and quietness (there was only Richard besides G.), only really pleased at its being admired and at looking pretty herself, which was strikingly the case. She was a little shy at coming in, and sent in Mrs Jebb to ask George to
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. The expression which it gives was hers at times, but it was not that which to my mind best reveals her nature. It is too grave, and even stern. On April 19th, 1887, the anniversary of my father's death, she wrote: I do not find that the day of the month makes the anniversary with me but the look out of doors, the flowers, and the sort of weather. Emma Darwin to Margaret Shaen after the sudden death of her father. EASTBOURNE, Monday [Ap. 4, 1887]. In my great loss I felt that the sudden end was a
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these years, and also to know that you feel the same as ever to Ch. fills me with gratitude. I think it is a surprising thing that at 871 I should feel stronger and better in every way than I did at 85. My best love to my dear William who is as steadfast as you. Yours, my dear daughter in heart, EMMA DARWIN. 1 Her birthday was on May 2nd, 1808. Emma Darwin to her daughter H. E. Litchfield. May 13th, 1895. Yesterday it was 79 and very close, a little growl of thunder. How lovely England is in
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, Catherine, see Mackintosh, Lady Allen, Edward, ii. 24 n., 25, 26 Allen, Elizabeth, see Wedgwood, Mrs Josiah, of Maer Allen, Emma, account of, i. 8, 9; returns to live at Cresselly, i. 216; tour in N. Wales, ii. 126; her death, ii. 204 letter to Emma Darwin. i. 454; letters to Elizabeth Wedgwood, i. 101, 112,132, 170, 172, 397; letters to Mrs Josiah Wedgwood, of Maer, i. 40, 43, 60, 123 Allen family, the youthful spirit of the, ii. 135 Allen, Fanny, account of, i. 9; a coquet if she refuses W
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Langton, Mrs Algernon, i. 132, 133, 135. 337 n. Langton, Mrs Charles (Charlotte Wedgwood), her character, i. 73; incomparable repose in her appearance when 19, i. 110, 111; in Paris, i. 149; takes drawing lessons, i. 268; her engagement, i. 337; her marriage, i. 344; portrait of, i. 386; Mme Sismondi on, ii. 158; her death, ii. 198; description of, by Fanny Allen, ii. 198, 199 letters to Mrs Charles Darwin (Emma Wedgwood), i. 266, 454; letter to Mrs Charles Darwin, Mrs Hensleigh and Mrs Henry
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, that in another letter from Catharine Darwin this year she dilates on the luxury of being allowed a fire to work by in her father's bedroom. This is in December, and she fills half a page with apologies, and says it is not quite so extravagant as it sounds, as when they are alone the dining-room fire need not be lighted till dinner. I wonder how many men making such an income as Dr Darwin now practise such economy. In contrast to Catharine Darwin's view that Emma had an unfeigned passion for
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It was nice seeing you so often and expecting you. I always felt I ought to stop you but it was so pleasant I had not the virtue. Yours my dear, E. DARWIN. Emma Darwin to her daughter H. E. Litchfield. THE GROVE, Oct. 17th, 1891. Yesterday was bright with a furious wind, and it must have been bad for your smoky chimney. I had only glanced at Chamberlain's speech, but your account made me look back and I enjoyed and admired it much. I hope a good many Gladstonians heard it. It was so moderate
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Shrewsbury, was the youngest son of the then Squire of Elston. Children of Dr Robert Waring Darwin (1766 1848) and his wife Susannah Wedgwood (1765 1817). 1. Marianne (1798 1858) m. Dr Henry Parker. 2. Caroline (1800 1888) m. her cousin Josiah Wedgwood of Leith Hill Place. 3. Susan (1803 1866) unmarried. 4. Erasmus Alvey (1804 1881) unmarried. 5. Charles Robert (1809 1882) m. his cousin Emma Wedgwood. 6. Catherine (1810 1866) m., late in life, Rev. Charles Langton. Charlotte Wedgwood was his
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CHAPTER I. The Allens of Cresselly Josiah and John Wedgwood A family meeting at Broadstairs in 1798 Tom Wedgwood the first photographer Josiah settles at Gunville. EMMA WEDGWOOD was born on May 2nd, 1808, at Maer Hall, in Staffordshire. She was the youngest child of Josiah Wedgwood of Maer, the second son of Josiah Wedgwood of Etruria, the great potter. Her mother was Elizabeth, the daughter of John Bartlett Allen of Cresselly, Pembrokeshire. As the letters of Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her
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married Saba Smith, daughter of Sydney, who died in 1866. Sir Henry Holland published a volume of Recollections in 1872, and died in 1873. His eldest son (formerly Colonial Secretary) is now Viscount Knutsford. been so cold about it. Will men never be just to women? If they have dabbled themselves in ink the least in the world, the thing is impossible. Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her sister Emma Allen. PARKFIELDS, Nov. 27 [1813]. My dear Emma, Nothing can be more delightful than the present course of
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that even a visitor at Maer should be so successful, as in the case of both Jessie and Miss A. As for Fanny and Emma, they are quite dragonesses, but nothing pleased me so much in their success, as the sincerity with which they tried to waive their glories in favour of the other competitors; and nothing pleased my little Emma so much as losing the second prize which was so near being judged in her favour. Perhaps they carried their scruples further than necessary, but there was a delicacy in the
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very happy stay there, and I always enjoy myself particularly in Hensleigh and Fanny's company. There is such constant placidity and comfort through the house, and such warm affection between them that it makes one happy to see it. Papa used to ride down every day almost, and always stay from Saturday till Monday, and he finds himself very comfortable there, and likes devoting himself to Snow's amusement very much. I heard a good deal of beautiful music, and corrupted Aunt Emma [Allen] so far
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, dear Emma, most affectionately yours, C. DARWIN. Charles Darwin to Emma Wedgwood. [30 November, 1838], Friday Evening, [After many details on house hunting and domestic affairs.] Powers of sentimentality forgive me for sending such a letter: it surely ought to have been written on foolscap paper, and closed with a wafer. I told you I should write to you as if you really were my own dear, dear wife, and have not I kept my word most stoutly? My excuse must be, I have seen no one for these two
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